Lockyer v. Andrade
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| Lockyer v. Andrade | |||||||||||||
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| Argued November 5, 2002 Decided March 5, 2003 |
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| California's three strikes law does not violate the Eighth Amendment. | |||||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer |
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| Majority by: O'Connor Joined by: Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas Dissent by: Souter Joined by: Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg |
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| U.S. Const. amend. VIII;28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1); Cal. Penal Code § 667 | |||||||||||||
Leandro Andrade was convicted of two counts of petty theft and given two sentences of 25-years-to-life in prison, due to California's 3-strike law and two previous convictions also for petty theft. [1]
